Pius Langa

Tags: Judge.

Pius Nkonzo Langa SCOB (25 March 1939 – 24 July 2013) was previously Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He was appointed to the bench in 1994 by Nelson Mandela he became Deputy Chief Justice in 2001 and was elevated as Chief Justice in 2005 by Thabo Mbeki. He retired in October 2009. He died in 2013 aged 74 following a long illness.

alma mater

University of South Africa

appointer

Thabo Mbeki

birth date

1939-03-25

birth place

Transvaal Province, South Africa, Bushbuckridge

death date

2013-07-24

death place

Gauteng, Johannesburg, South Africa

deputy

Dikgang Moseneke

office

Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa, Deputy President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

order in office

Chief Justice of South Africa

successor

Sandile Ngcobo, Dikgang Moseneke